THE 



ANNUAL 



Philadelphia 



Alumni Association 



LAFAYETTE COLLEGE 



1888 



VOLUME L 



PUBLISHED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



philadelphia 
Geo. S. Harris & Sons 

1888 



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Copyright 1888 by 

Philadelphia Alumni Association 

Of Lafayette College 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Introductory, .4 

Programme of the Banquet, March 1, 1888, ... 7 

Address, "The Growth of Lafayette," 

By Prof. Francis A. March, LL.D., L.H.D., . . 9 

Poem, " Lovely Lafayette," 

By Rev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D.D., 23 

History, by Rev. Prof. Samuel A. Martin, . . .38 

Annual Meeting and Banquet of 1887, . . . .42 

The Philadelphia Alumni Association : 

1. The Constitution, 44 

2. The Officers, . . . . . . . .47 

3. The Roll of Members, . . . . . . 48 

''The Annual," by El Dorado, 55 



INTRODUCTORY. 



This Annual is published by the Executive Committee of 
the Philadelphia Alumni Association of Lafayette College. 
It is the first number of a series. It contains the post-prandial 
papers — the valuable Address of Dr. March, the Poem, and 
the History — read at the Annual Meeting and Banquet of the 
Association, held in the Colonnade Hotel, Fifteenth and 
Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, on Thursday Evening, March 
1, 1888. 

This first number of The Annual includes the Constitution 
of the Association, adopted a year ago, in order that all may 
be fully informed as to the objects and aims of the Association. 

The names and residences of the members of the Associa- 
tion are also published in this number. In order that the 
Roll of Members may be more complete in the next issue of 
The Annual, notices of additions, changes, and corrections 
should be sent to the Secretary. 

A brief account of the Annual Meeting and Banquet of 
1887 is given in this number, in order that the history of our 
Association in its permanently organized form may be pre- 
served. 

It is hoped that the result of this publication will be to 
revive and sustain a greater interest in our Alma Mater, and 
induce all the Alumni in this section to become members of 



INTRODUCTORY 5 

our Association. With our President Cattell, with nearly one- 
third of our Board of Trustees, and with a very large number 
of the "boys of Lafayette," residing in this city of Brotherly 
Love, we ought to have a strong Alumni Association. Every 
alumnus — graduates, former students, and those who have 
received honorary degrees from Lafayette — of the Quaker City 
and vicinity, should be included in the membership of our 
Association. If each one of our present members would 
interest himself personally in trying to induce other Alumni 
to join our Association, our membership by next year would be 
more than doubled. 

The entire expense of membership, including the Banquet 
and The Annual, is only three dollars a year. All who wish to 
be enrolled as members of the Association will please send their 
names to the Secretary, Mr. Charles B. Adamson, 730 Market 
Street, Philadelphia, or to any member of the Executive 
Committee. 

The Banquet this year was a great success. It is said to 
be the best and largest ever held in Philadelphia by any Alumni 
Association. Nearly one hundred and forty men of Lafayette 
were in attendance and thoroughly enjoyed themselves from 
seven P. M. until one o'clock the next morning. 

Two excellent features of the Banquet this year were : (1) 
the Reception to the Board of Trustees and the Faculty, of 
which a good representation was present ; and (2) the able and 
appropriate Address of Professor March. Th® historical paper 
of Professor Martin was a novel feature of the programme. 
The post-prandial speeches of President Knox and Ex-President 
Cattell, of Governor Hoyt and Attorney-General Kirkpatrick, 
of Trustee Shipman and Professor Owen, of Dr. Hamill and 



6 INTRODUCTORY 

Mr. Pardee, and of Master of Ceremonies Kaercher, were all 
good and well received. We regret that they were not reported 
for publication in The Annual. 

It is expected that our Association will hold another 
banquet the latter part of next May, during the Centennial 
Meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly, to be held in 
this Centennial City, commencing May 17th ; and that a 
reception will then be given to the visiting Alumni. This 
matter was favorably considered at the business meeting of the 
Association held March 1st, and referred to the E:5tecutive Com- 
mittee for action. 

Our next Annual Meeting and Banquet will be held on 
Thursday Evening, March 7th, 1889. Let all make that 
r)ccasion a previous engagement. 

IRWIN P. McCUPDY, 

723 S. 20th St., Philadelphia. Chairman Executive Committee. 

March 23, 1888. 



ANNUAL*BANQUET. 



Thursday Evening, March i, 1888. 






ADDRESS. 

"THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE." 

Prof. Francis A. March, LL.D,, L.H.D., . . Lafayette College. 



POEM. 
"LOVELY LAFAYETTE." 

Rev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D.D., Class of '80, 



Philadelphia. 



HISTORY. 

Rev. Prof. Sannuel A. Martin, Class of '~/j, . 



Lincoln University. 



POST-PRANDIAL SPEECHES. 



President James H. Mason Knox, D.D. LL.D., 
Ex-President William C. Cattell, D.D., LL.D., 
Ex-Governor Henry M. Hoyt, LL.D., Class of '46 
Hon. Jehiel G. Shipman, Class of '42, 
Hon. William S. Kirkpatrick, Class of '63, . 
Prof. William B. Owen, Ph. D., Class of '71, 
Rev. Samuel H. Hamill, D.D., Class of '34, 
Israel P. Pardee, Class of '74> 



Lafayette College. 

Philadelphia. 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

. Belvidere, N. J. 

. Harrisburg, Pa. 

Lafayette College. 

Lawrenceville, N. J. 

. Stanhope, N. J. 



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ADDRESS. 



THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE." 



BY 

Francis A. March, LL.D., L.H.D., 

Professor op the English Language and Comparative Philology 
IN Lafayette College. 



There are no dreams of youth which every college student 
is more certain to dream than visions of the growth and great- 
ness of his alma mater. And there are no college graduate^, 
who have more reason to cherish these dreams than the old 
alumni of Lafayette. 

And that shall be the subject of my talk to-night, " the 
growth of Lafayette," or, to put it in more imposing form and 
in the latest fashionable phrase, — "the development of a 
modern college." 

We Lafayette boys do not believe in developments and 
evolutions that develop or evolve themselves — that go it blind. 
We want an intelligence to start with. A wise and good power 
was needed for the development of the world ; for the develop- 
ment of a college, a wise and good heart and head ; for the 
development of Lafayette, Dr. Cattell. 

It was in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty -three that the Reverend William Cassiday Cattell 



10 THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE 

became president of Lafayette. His face was bright with a 
thousand hopes, but the most significant effluence of the new 
power was the waking of the whole college to new religious 
life, — God's blessing breathed upon old Lafayette, — Christ's 
stamp, to boot, upon the new president. 

Troops of friends gathered round him, Mr. Pardee and 
Mr. Adamson in the yan. No other college has, or ever has 
had, such a Board of Trustees. Students thronged in. The 
college developed. 

In the first place, the courses of study were multiplied 
and differentiated. 

The old college curriculum was intended for students who 
were expecting to be ministers, lawyers or doctors. Work 
enough for four years before coming of age had been agreed 
upon by educators as the best preparation for professional 
study. Some of it is of practical use to professional men. 
The mathematics are needed by the lawyer to sum up his 
bills of costs, and by the preacher to see how he can make his 
salary go round, after he has paid his life insurance, and his 
interest at the bank, and his share of the million of dollars 
endowment of his church. The languages are necessary tools 
in original research. Doctors use the natural sciences. Others 
of the studies are good for mental discipline. All had come 
to be conventional accomplishments without which no one 
could pass current among scholars. 

Lafayette was strongest in the studies for ministers. It 
had been established for pious students who could not encounter 
the costs and the temptations of the great cities and colleges. 
The first president. Dr. George Junkin, was a great man, a man 
of genius. He attracted other men of genius. Has any other 



THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE 11 

college without endowment ever had among the professors 
associated with its first president such a roll of eminences as 
Samuel D. Gross, James M. Porter, Traill Green, Charles F. 
McCay, Washington McCartney, James C. Moffatt, William 
Henry Green, James H. Coffin, Isidor Loewenthal ? 

This type of teacher had been propagated. The college 
never had been common place. But in the period preceding 
1863 half of the graduates studied for the ministry. 

A new class of students now presented themselves, 
students intending to be miners, civil engineers, mechanics, 
chemists. Here are new learned professions. They grow 
rapidly in importance and dignity, and their most eminent 
members are more and more earnestly advising aspiring young 
men to take a course of liberal learning in addition to the 
courses of a professional school. New courses have been 
arranged at Lafayette to meet the wants of these new professions. 
They contain modern languages, especially English, natural 
sciences, technical studies, political economy, and history, — the 
keys and tools of modern man. This is our development by 
multiplication. It gives rise to a four-fold multiplication of 
courses to meet the demands of four kinds of learned pro- 
fessions. 

A later duplication of this kind is just now demanded, 
mainly by teachers and scientists who have already graduated, 
but who seek for eminent positions, professorships in colleges 
or the like, and find it of use to take post-graduate courses for 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. These students now 
number nearly as many as our senior undergraduates. 

Many of our sister colleges have developed courses for 
women. I do not know that any woman has ever made appli- 



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cation for admission to the undergraduate courses of Lafayette. 
I have often wondered why. We have hosts of bright girls in 
Easton and thereabouts who carry off the honors in our high 
schools, and who afterwards combine into Chatauqua circles 
and literature classes. It may be they are afraid of Dr. Knox, 
now ; but they could not have been afraid of Dr. Cattell. 

Differentiation, to use a technicality of the evolutionists, 
gives rise to elective studies. When there are plenty of 
professors such studies are natural. There are often several 
different authors equally suited to the capacity of a class, but 
one having one kind of interest, another another kind. If there 
are half a dozen teachers of Greek, it is a pleasant arrange- 
ment that each give a course in a different author. Then a 
student who is thinking of studying law and likes legal 
oratory, can go into Demosthenes, a preacher of the same 
college class into Chrysostom, a doctor into Aristotle, a literary 
man into ^schylus, if he is for tragedy, or Aristophanes, if for 
fun ; or at certain grades a choice may be given between different 
kinds of study of similar difficulty, as between organic analysis 
and analytical geometry, between Blackstone and bridge build- 
ing, or Hebrew and Homer, or Beowulf and Goethe. 

In these ways the old Lafayette course of 2070 recitations 
and lectures has developed into 9263. 

The electives at the other old colleges, at Harvard even, 
are for the most part like those at Lafayette, developments of 
the old college course. Innocent persons think from the news- 
paper talk, that they can go to Harvard and do what they 
please ; walk into the laboratories and handle all the gases and 
blow up the buildings the first day, or into Professor Goodwin's 
Greek and Professor Child's Beowulf at their pleasure. But 



THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE 13 

they would find that in order to take this study they must first 
have taken that ; and before that, the other. There is a pro- 
gressive system and they must begin at the beginning. It is a 
development of the old four-years course. 

There is, I am told, a development of the old field school 
in some of our newer American universities. They undertake 
to get together a body of permanent instructors in every thing, 
to whom anybody can go, and hear somebody lecture on 
anything he pleases. 

I dare say the friends of Lafayette would not very strenu- 
ously object to the establishment of well-endowed professorships 
there of minute or remote branches of learning, of thorough 
bass, for example, or Japanese; but a distinction should be 
made between a college and a university proper. The college 
work is the education of youth. Provision for professorial 
assistance to men in the labors of their middle life must be 
mainly relegated to government universities. A Bureau of 
references to heads of workshops of the right sort might be 
better even there than a permanent salaried body of professors 
in waiting. 

The attempt to provide a great number of elective studies 
for college youth, not as parts of useful courses, but to please 
the fancy of the idle, or kindle the fires of incipient genius has 
not been necessary at Lafayette. The great mass of our youth 
are still pressing on hard to active life. Ninety-nine in the 
hundred are in haste to begin the work of some profession, and 
go to college to be fitted for it. This determines what is best 
for them to study. Our engineers do not gambol about in 
protoplasm or Sanskrit. Our chemists do not spend their days 
and nights in Hebrew or quaternions. Shall our ministers 



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that-are-to-be study Latin and Greek ? That is not an open 
question for them. They must study them. They cannot get 
a license to preach without them. So must our lawyers study 
Latin or they cannot gain admittance to the bar. 

There are, to be sure, a few persons now in our country 
who do not intend to practice any profession, or mingle with 
professional men, who mean to lead a life of luxury and 
pleasure, who abhor Latin, Greek and mathematics, but who 
fancy certain semi-intellectual occupations, some descriptive 
science perhaps, Shakespeare and the musical glasses, or ath- 
letics, and so prefer to hang about a college during their 
minority. 

I very seriously recognize that it is most desirable that 
youth of this class should have the best influences of college 
life. Perhaps it is desirable that some modification of college 
rigor should be made for them. But that is rather for a 
university to make. Their numbers are small. I believe 
Harvard alone might provide for all this class of matriculates, 
and that there is no call whatever for the old colleges to 
attempt this sort of equipment, except the call which fashion 
makes. 

With the development of our courses of study there was a 
corresponding development of our diploma. The student of 
law or medicine or theology wants a diploma to secure him his 
registration which shows that he has studied Latin and Greek. 
So does the teacher who applies for a class in classics in the 
High School. The teacher of science, on the other hand, wants 
a diploma which shows that he has studied the sciences; the 
engineer one that shows he has studied engineering. Harvard, 
which boasts its many courses, still gives but a single degree. 



THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE 15 

That seems to be a case of arrested development. The Harvard 
graduate who wishes to enter as a law student in our courts, or 
to enter the graduate courses at Lafayette has to bring a set of 
papers supplementary to his diploma, or try to pass the 
Lafayette examinations. To be sure, if a graduate is going to 
do nothing in particular, it may suit him to pose with a degree 
that declares him to be nothing in particular. 

At the same time with this development of the courses of 
study there has been a development of the methods of teaching. 
The early college had little apparatus of illustration or manipu- 
lation, and its work was mostly a gymnastic of the intellect. 

The traditional picture of the student represents him in 
dressing gown and slippers, recumbent, his book fastened open 
before him, and needing nothing to help him study but the 
hydraulic pressure on the brain which he gets from his legs 
high propt on chair or table, desk or mantel. 

But all study now is accompanied by exercises of practice 
or research. Munificent friends of learning and Lafayette have 
bestowed their hundreds of thousands of dollars in buildings 
and equipment for it. Our student of to-day would be best 
caricatured blowing himself up in the chemical laboratory, or 
caught in the wheels of machines, or making furtive sketches 
in the drawing-rooms, or upsetting a theodolite, or lugging arm- 
loads of books of reference. 

All the best colleges use these methods in the study of 
the material sciences. A similar principle has been freely used 
at Lafayette in the linguistic and philosophic and historical 
studies. In these it has been common in our universities to 
give up the old text book study for lectures by the home 
professors. It is thought best to have every morsel of truth 



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lubricated well with professorial palaver. At Lafayette study 
of a good elementary text book has been retained, and incul- 
cated ; but it has been accompanied by continual exercises of 
original research. The students are made to write their own 
lectures, we say. 

Suitable specific topics for research suggested by the text 
book are given out every week and every student is required 
to hand in every week a written discourse embodying the 
results of his research for the week. A number of these papers 
are read in class and the whole topic is handled in a general 
discussion. 

This is a capital college training of American growth 
similar in principle to the German Seminarium work, which is 
just now being introduced into our most advanced universities. 

In connection with it a handling of our libraries has 
grown up which is perhaps worth mentioning. The works of 
general reference, cyclopaedias, dictionaries and the like, and 
also the works of special reference upon each of these topics of 
research are collected and left in open cases for free use by all 
the students in the Reading-room, and to be taken out at night 
by such students as are making researches in them. The actual 
use of these books is ten times what it would be if each book 
had to be drawn from the librarians. They are often in con- 
ditions to shock our model librarians, volumes out of place, 
bottom up, battered and all that, and w^orn out, many of them, 
every year. But what are books made for, Mr. Librarian? 
The main reading of the college is of these books, and of the 
periodical literature which is kept under the same regulations. 

Novel reading has not much developed, Scott's novels are 
read more than all the rest together. And Miss Austen's 



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Pride and Prejudice keeps from year to year in front of all 
books but reference books. 

Our athletics must also be counted in our development. 
A professor of Physical Culture was elected in 1865, one 
of Dr. Cattell's earliest professors, as the new gymnasium 
was one of his latest endowments. Eegular exercises in class 
are required of all the students, the same as in literary and 
scientific studies, and athletics are a most important addition 
to the old college training. 

AVhether it is due to the bracing air of Easton, or Pres- 
byterian back-bone, our college teams take the lead among 
those of undergraduate collegians. And we have little of the 
unfortunate effects most deplored in our largest universities. 
None of our students give themselves up to athletics; we 
cannot get our champions to practice enough. Nor do we have 
professional trainers. Foot ball was rather unsatisfactory two 
or three years ago. Our big brothers took to disabling the 
players rather than carrying the ball to the goal, and told us that 
it was the first principle of foot ball to throw away all thought of 
being gentlemanlike ; and the city mobs began to jeer at games 
in which bloody noses and cracked crowns were not current. But 
the new" rules with two good referees have changed all that, and 
we have never had better exhibitions of manly strength, endur- 
ance, and skill, and of knightly spirit upon our campus than 
the last year's games with Haverford, Swarthmore and Lehigh. 

With all these added cultures of mind and body there has 
been a notable mellowing of social habits. There are hand- 
somer rooms, more costly board. The college fraternities have 
grown in strength, and with their old memories and far-reaching 
associations are able to develop a more genial manhood. 



18 THE GROWTH OF LAFAYETTE 

I am not sure but we make college too good a place. 
Two persons may pass through the very same series of circum- 
stances, and one find it all happiness and the other all misery. 
One begins a millionaire and keeps losing and losing till he 
reaches poverty. The other begins with poverty and works up 
to his million rejoicing all the way. An early life of hardness, 
a setting yourself at zero in youth has its advantages. I fear 
sometimes that our preachers may find their college life with 
its morning naps for beauty sleep, its studies as they please, 
its daily use of costly athletic equipments, its baths, its banquets, 
its music, its friendships, its spacious halls full of light and 
tempered air, an untimely life as a prelude to a struggle with 
sin and bad air, poverty, deacons and church choirs. 

At Lafayette we are pretty nearly right ; we are still for 
plain living and high thinking. When it comes to students 
having thousand-dollar rooms, and body servants, and horses, 
real horses to ride to recitation, and dogs, and canes all round, 
that is going too far. 

An eminent professor of one of our greatest western 
universities, returning from a visit to a private mansion on 
the grounds of another university, described it to me as a 
palace of stone carved in figures and full inside of statuary, 
paintings, and what not. And he exploded with indignation 
that such an ideal of private life should be set before the un- 
sophisticated American youth of the university. I was sur- 
prised at first by his heat ; but I plainly see that the professors' 
houses at Lafayette are far better suited to their salaries. 
When we have a professor who is disposed to spend a million in 
building, and has the million, I most sincerely hope that he will 
put it in a public building like that of Mr. Pardee. I should 



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be sorry to know that any of our students' rooms were so 
splendidly upholstered and garnished, that strangers were 
taken to them as a more imposing sight than our public build- 
ings. It is very undesirable that the habits of social life at a 
college should be so expensive that a professor cannot live on 
his salary. That makes it necessary to seek oftenest for pro- 
fessors, either rich mens sons, or husbands of rich men's 
daughters, or elderly gentlemen who have accumulated wealth. 
These are very desirable ornaments of any institution, but 
better suit, I think, the great American universities than hard 
working colleges like Lafayette. 

We see that all these develo2Dm.ents of college studies, 
college manual training, athletics, social life, are in the direc- 
tion of freedom, of more powerful personality, a richer indi- 
vidual character, a higher life. 

The central source from which these movements flow is 
religion, more of that divine life which is the life of that vine 
into whom the true man is grafted. Lafayette was founded 
in prayer, and has been kejDt alive in prayer. It always has 
been a religious college. But there has been of late years an 
immense increase of religious life. It does not resemble at 
all the revivals of fifty years ago. It is not a revival of 
revivals, but a revival of religion. There is little of the old 
law work. Confession of sin gives place to profession of faith 
and love. Our youths seem easily to attain a consciousness of 
the divine life in them, and this not for enjoyment as with the 
mystics, but for action. They make a business of religion. 
They organize, equip themselves for service, and go out working 
in every direction. They are ready to go to the ends of the 
earth. 



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These feelings are common to all the old religious colleges, 
and yet we find a falling off in the number of college prayers, 
and other religious services of the whole institution. 

"Dr. Luther," said his wife, "why is it that we pray less 
frequently now than we used to under the Pope ? " 

If I knew Luther's answer, perhaps I could explain the 
decline in college prayers. 

No doubt many of our earnest Sauls, who are to be Pauls, 
are aware that their own prayers are more eloquent than those 
of the college authorities. But in some quarters loud objection 
is made to compulsory religion. 

Compulsory attendance on prayers and preaching is a 
special object of attack. But it is almost a misnomer to call 
the college discipline compulsion. It is nothing like so strong 
as the obligations of professional life, or the tyranny of fashion, 
or social habits, or home influence. A college student is about 
the freest man there is. The compulsion to prayers, what is it? 
If a student is absent twenty times without excuse, word is sent to 
his father. But if he were at home and absent from home prayers 
his father would know it the first morning. When Adonis visits 
at the home of Edith, does the sweet compulsion to family 
prayers make the gracious words of the Bible less dear to him ? 

Much of the talk against college prayers is a survival from 
old times when they really had painful accompaniments. We 
used to get up at Amherst in winter while it was black night, 
struggle through the snow waist deep sometimes, and hear 
prayers in a chapel without fire with the thermometer twenty 
degrees below zero, more or less, and then have a Greek recita- 
tion by the light of little oil lamps, before we went to breakfast, 
before sun rise. 



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At Lafayette it used to be the custom to hold these early 
prayers without any following recitation, so that the students 
who had tumbled up and taken prayers, for the most part 
tumbled into bed again. 

But we have changed all that. It is certainly a pleasant 
sight to see our college now, bathed and breakfasted and ready 
for recitations, gathering at morning prayers. Our beautiful 
hill bright in the early sun, the valley lying in rosy mist with 
the rivers glinting through, the quiet mountains looking on as 
though they liked the looks, the white smokes curling upward 
from hearths of homes that may be temples, the spired fingers 
of the churches pointing heavenward, the college campus with 
its hundred paths all leading to the college chapel, the hundreds 
of young men rejoicing in their strength, and rejoicing in the 
morning and in the nature around them which is in itself a 
liberal education, and gathering to offer a morning tribute of 
thanks and praise to the giver of all good, and ask him for 
stout hearts and clear heads for the labors of the day, and for 
the scholar's blessing, the pure heart that shall see God, — is a 
sight worth seeing. It is impossible to believe that it can be 
a burden to an5^ 

I have seen many generations of college students grow up 
and pass through life. I have known hundreds of them well, 
and I am fully satisfied that the habit of attendance on 
religious exercises in college has been a most powerful influence 
for good. 

I believe in it still. I trust it still. When I meet a 
Lafayette man, whether in the pulpit, or at the bar, a doctor, 
a teacher, a journalist, an engineer, I hope to find him a leader 
among men, I hope to find that he wears still some grace won 



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from the humanities, the fair humanities of Greece and Rome 
and the golden days of Queen EHzabeth. But I expect, I trust, 
that I shall find him to be a better man for going regularly to 
prayers and church. 

And that, after all, is the proper work of a college, to make 
Christian men of sound culture. It is not so much to develop 
genius ; genius in the teens is either omniverous or stupid, and 
either way considers professors a bore ; nor is it to make incipient 
professors write up huge note books of statistics and bibli- 
ography. It is to prepare our youth to discharge the duties of 
good citizens in those professions requiring special preparation, 
to make good preachers, lawyers, doctors, chemists, teachers, 
journalists, engineers, farmers, merchants, master workmen in 
every good work, heads of every good organization in Church 
and State. 

In this great career so auspiciously begun by Dr. Junkin 
and carried forward by Dr. Cattell, all friends of Christian 
education may rejoice with us that under Dr.^ Knox, clear 
sighted, upright and downright, and devout, and true hearted, 
Lafayette still marches on. 



POEM. 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE. 



BY 

Rev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D.D., 
Pastor of the Southwestern Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. 



PROEM. 

This banquet is a great success ! 
Because of March's grand address ; 
He's spoken well of Friendship's shrine, 
And has good words for •' auld lang syne." 

To follow March, I must confess, 
I truly feel my littleness — 
The mighty sun has brightly shined ; 
I'm but a little star, you'll find. 

Before I've reached my zenith line. 
You'll wish you hadn't made me shine ; 
But, since you've put me to the test, 
A little star, I'll shine my best. 



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Before we gathered here to-night, 
We tried to get some one to write 
This " Poem," but we could not find 
A single man of willing mind. 

'Tis strange we find to none belong 
The Muses for this college song ; 
And, in the smooth, poetic verse, 
Our times at Lafayette rehearse. 

I'm told such work I'd better quit. 
For " Poeta nascitur, non jit" — 
Who cares for that, as now in glee 
We have our college jubilee ? 

Good men of Lafayette, you're here 
To-night, and bring to us good cheer ; 
Your presence makes these banquet hours 
As cheerful as the blooming flowers. 

Her name is rendered doubly dear, 
To see her sons assembled here, — 
The loyal sons of Lafayette 
In this old Quaker City met. 

We hail your coming here with praise ; 
A grateful voice we'll try to raise ; 
Our hearty song in joy and glee 
Of " Lovely Lafayette" shall be. 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 25 

Do not expect a faultless song ; 
But let my couplets glide along 
As they, perhaps, to-night may tell 
Of "auld lang syne" we knew so well. 

May cheerful thoughts our fancy fill, 
And words run fluent from our quill. 
And be arrayed in easy rhyme, 
And give us all a joyful time. 



II. 



GREETING. 

And first we greet at this event, 
Good Doctor Knox, our President — 
In you our Alma Mater's found 
The man to keep her safe and sound. 

We greet our President Cattell, 
The honored man we love so well — 
Your faithful work has borne the test. 
Because it was the very best. 

And March we greet, the man who wrought 
The finest texture in our thought, 
The greatest teacher far or near, 
The Anglo-Saxon pioneer. 



26 LOVELY LAFAYETTE 

We greet Professors and Trustees — 
To our success you've been the ke3^s — 
Your college work so nobly done 
Brings forth the praise of every one. 

We greet good men from Lafayette — 
On her success their hearts are set — 
There's Youngman, Owen, Hardy too, 
And other men, — the tried and true. 

You've taught us how through life to go — 
To you our gratitude we owe ; 
We're glad to greet you — men of might, 
Who teach so well the truth and right. 

And graduates of former days, 
Of whom the world now sings your praise. 
We greet you all, for here we've met 
To shout, — Three cheers for Lafayette ! 



IIL 



ALMA MATEE. 

For Alma Mater give a cheer ! 

Long live our Lafayette ! as year 

By year she gives recruits of worth 

To bless mankind through all the earth. 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 27 

In generations yet to be, 

May men like March, Cattell, Pardee, 

Be found who'll work, and give, and pray, 

As they have done in this their day. 

Their noble deeds for Lafayette, 
Her sons and friends will ne'er forget ; 
Their praises long and loud we'll sound — 
May other men like them be found. 

Like them do what they'll not regret — 
Give faithful work to Lafayette ; 
And, when they reach the shining shore, 
They'll find reward forevermore. 

And when we think of Lafayette, 
Departed men we'll not forget — 
There's Junkin, Coffin, Coleman too, 
Who founded well and built so true ! 

We're thankful for the era done ; 
We're trustful for the coming one ; 
May coming years by power divine 
Surpass the old and brighter shine. 

To work ! to work ! each loyal son. 
And earn the fame these men have won ; 
And, when the work of life is done, 
You'll find a crown of glory won. 



28 LO VEL Y LA FA YETTE 

May Heaven's benediction be 
On both Professor and Trustee, 
To work for God and do the right, 
And keep our college pure and bright. 

As faithful workers sow the truth 
In minds and hearts of hopeful youth ; 
And when you reap, you'll find a yield 
Of fruitful lives, the harvest field. 

'' The growth of Lafayette," we're told 
In speech of Anglo-Saxon gold 
By Dr. March, has ever been 
Through faithful work of earnest men. 

Our Alma Mater, may God bless 
In leading men to righteousness ; 
May her career be ever bright 
In training men for truth and right ! 

God keep our college always bright 
With Christian Learning's holy light ; 
And free from error may she be 
In this great land of Liberty ! 

Thus "Lovely Lafayette" will stand 
The greatest college in the land ; 
And to our sons instruction give 
That through eternity will live ! 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 29 

IV. 
"AULD LANG SYNE." 

" Should anld acquaintance be forgot?" 
And Alma Mater have no thought? 
No, " here's a hand," dear friends of mine, 
For happy " days of auld lang syne." 

There's nothing since the birth of time, 
That's told in prose or sung in rhyme. 
That should receive more hearty praise 
Than " auld lang syne" of college days. 

Once more we meet as college men, 
We grasp true Friendship's hand again— 
What changes time and chance have wrought 
Since we at Lafayette were taught ! 

Dear college friends, let us to-night 
Recall once more the old delight 
Of college days, when hfe was new 
And sparkled as the morning dew. 

Recall again those joyous days. 
Still bright in memory's golden rays, 
When all the world was fair and new, 
And college friends were always true. 



30 LOVELY LAFAYETTE 

We heard sweet music in the air, 
Saw things of beauty everywhere, 
Were men of courage, men of power ,- 
Except at recitation hour. 

Of active life we only dreamed, 
And everything was what it seemed — 
Those blessed college days are o'er ; 
Ah yes ! they're gone forevermore ! 

Of college life we might rehearse 
Fit themes for high poetic verse. 
If those old times we loved so well 
Were vocal made by Fancj^'s spell. 

We'd sing, in sweet, melodious lays, 
The memories of those golden days — 
They do us good as gentle showers 
Invigorate the leaves and flowers. 

Our college days we'll not forget ; 
We'll drink the health of Lafayette ! 
Then full of joy we all shall be, 
And have a jolly jubilee ! 

" We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet ;" 
Those dear old times we'll not forget ; 
Then, let us have " a hand o' thine," 
For merry " days of auld lang syne." 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 31 

V. 

COLLEGE BOYS. 

Now let the cup of joy o'erflow ; 
Be free from care, as long ago ; 
And let these hours be hours of joys, 
And once again be " College Boys !" 

Although we boys sometimes are told 
We talk and act as if we're old ; 
The only things that keep their youth, 
We're sure, are college boys and truth. 

Our college " flunks," and " fizzles" too, 
Our " cuts" at chapel, not a few, 
Our Freshman " rush," and " haze," and fun, 
Our good old times, are not all done. 

We'll spend these hours in youthful fun ; 
We're boys — none more than twenty-one ! — 
That's true !— who says that we are more? 
He's off the track !— show him the door ! 

Shall we be melancholy, boys? 
Oh, no ! Wake up ! Be jolly, boys ! 
Let's make old " Spookie" stop and stare, 
And German " Bloomie" flare and rare ! 



32 LOVELY LAFAYETTE 

We're college boys of Easton town — 
We'll make our old Professors frown ! 
It matters not what they may think — 
We'll put them out as quick as wink ! 

Who cares to-night ? Let's make a noise 
Yes, have a " rush" — for we are bo3^s ! 
" The boys" we were, " the boys" we'll be, 
And have a grand, old jubilee ! 



VI. 



OUR boys' success. 



We're told that though we say we're boys. 
There comes to us the world's applause ; 
That in our work with tongue and pen 
We've had success — we must be men. 

That boy, we're told, has " LL.D.," 
And there's another with " D.D.," 
And there's a learned " Ph.D.," 
And there's a lad — a great " M.D." 

While some a " as brief appendix wear 

As Tam O'Shanter's luckless mare" — 

As Holmes would say — " they've won the prize, 

And grand they look in people's e3^es." 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 33 

Those boys are Preachers — men of God — 
They walk the road the INIaster trod ; 
Some speak with mighty eloquence, 
And some are College Presidents. 

Those boys are Lawyers — Judges too — 
Without these men what would we do ? 
The folds of Right they keep unfurled 
For sinners in a wrangling world. 

Those boys are Doctors, and each fills 
A sacred place to heal our ills ; 
The Great Physician this way trod 
To lead the people back to God. 

Those boys are Teachers — sound their praise ! 
They lead in Wisdom's pleasant ways — 
And some profound Professors are — 
For truth they shine a Morning Star. 

Those boys are Merchants — givers too — 
And some are rich as any Jew ; 
With all their wealth they don't forget 
To freely give to Lafayette. 

Those boys are Statesmen — mighty men ! ' 

Before their names there's "HO N." — 
They've heard the people's urgent calls — 
Are found in Legislative Halls. 



34 L0V:ELY LAFAYETTE 

Those boys are Authors — written books ? 
You couldn't tell it by their looks — 
And from their pens great poems flow ; 
Such men are born, not made, you know. 

Among these boys there's one — 'tis seen 
Fate tried to hide him — called him " Green"— 
In Eighty-eight our sight is keen 
To see him Moderator Green ! 

Our college boys have great success — 
Such boys our God has sent to bless ; 
They've done good work with voice and pen, 
They're numbered with the best of men. 

In our careers, their hopes and fears. 
Across the distance of the years 
Great help has come from Lafayette, 
To give success in duties met. 



VII. 



" we'ke boys." 



But be our honors what they will, 
" The boys" we were, " the boys" we're still ! 
In spite of what success may bring. 
With us there dwells eternal spring. 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 35 

Yes, yes ! we're boys ! You ask, Just when 
Will boys like you" become the men ? 
We hardly know — we're youngsters yet, 
The boys of " Lovely Lafayette !" 

As boys not more than twenty-one. 
To-night with glee we'll have our fun, 
Before these festal scenes are o'er — 
We part, perhaps, to meet no more. 

We'll always be thus young and gay. 
As one by one we pass away — . 
And when we've done with earthly toys. 
May God receive us " College Boys." 

We know the boys are not all here — 
For some we shed a sacred tear — 
Alas ! the breezes softly pass 
Across their graves, now green with grass. 

Their work is done ; it has been wrought 
In harmony with God's great thought ; 
And now, they've reached the shining shore. 
And have reward forevermore. 

They've found the happy end at last ; 
Examinations all are passed ; 
Bank, honors, prizes too, they've won ; 
They've heard the Master say, — " Well done !" 



36 LOVELY LAFAYETTE 

YIIL 

EPILOGUE. 

Now boys, I've passed my zenith line ; 
A dozen planets wait to shine ; 
The time has come for me to set ; 
Let others shine for Lafayette ! 

Forgive, dear friends, this poor display 
Of college days, now passed away, 
If these my vagrant thoughts shall seem 
A school-boy's pla^dng with his theme. 

With other men you would have fared . 
A better feast, and thus been spared 
To listen to my rhyming verse ; 
Then take the better — leave the worse. 

This first of March, in Eighty-eight, 
This throng of many a graduate. 
This " auld lang syne" of Lafayette, 
This pleasant time, we'll not forget. 

Just one word more before I set : 
A health to " Lovely Lafayette ! " 
As we her children of her boast — 
"Esto perpehiCL " the toast. 



LOVELY LAFAYETTE 37 

As college boys once more we stand 
With heart to heart and hand to hand — 
Let us resolve to ne'er forget 
To pray, — God bless our Lafayette ! 

God keep her boys, at work or play, 
Till comes the great Commencement Day ; 
And then ma}^ we with honors be 
Prepared to take our last Degree ! 



HISTORY. 



BY 

Rev. Samuel A. Martin, A.M., 

Professor of Sacred Khetoric, Theological Department 
OF Lincoln University. 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION. 



The task of your historian is always difficult, and often 
dangerous. It is onerous because he must gather his material 
while you gather your supper. He works while you play. He 
is like Job's ox, for we read " The oxen w^ere plowing and the 
asses feeding beside them." 

But his task is dangerous ; always dangerous to his morals, 
and, if the subjects of his labor are still living, he is in jeopardy 
of life and limb. It is my ambition to write a natural history 
of you my brethren ; but regard for those dependent on me has 
counseled the better part of valor and I shall use discretion. 

But the really serious danger which threatens your sensi- 
tive historian is the loss of all his reputation for veracity. The 
spirit of skepticism has attacked the page of history and calls 
the knight of history a liar. Even Rider Haggard and Mr. 
Froude have not escaped, I only am left, and it may fall upon 
me at anv moment. Positive philosophy has done this ; we 



HISTORY LAFAYETTE ALUMNI 39 

are forbidden to believe what we can not see or smell. If 
history tells of a goose that laid a golden Qgg, your positive 
philosopher adjusts his eye glass and remarks " Can I trouble 
you to let me look at that goose" and all the little positivists 
cry out in chorus " the bird, the bird, produce the bird." In 
vain does history plead that the old gray goose is dead, that 
even a goose can not forever evade the boarding house pot. 
In vain we cite the fact that an ass may lay a corner stone. 
The age is prejudiced and skeptical. If things go on at this 
rate, the time is not far off when men will dare to doubt the 
daily papers. 

With all these difficulties in the way and these exasperating 
circumstances, is it any wonder that so much history is profane; 
and, if the muses swear, what can mortals do ? If you will 
pardon the appearance of boasting, I would like to say that I 
have rare qualifications for this task ; for in addition to my 
great learning, for which I am indebted to our Alma Mater — 
may her name increase in Geometrical Progression — I am 
perfectly innocent of any knowledge on the subject of which I 
write. I hope to tell my story simply as an honest man, fear- 
less of all praise, and regardless of all facts. 



CHAPTER II. 

GENEALOGY, NATIVITY, AND SUCH. 

The Alumni of this precinct were born at sundry times and 
in various places, of numerous parents more or less " poor but 
pious." They were reared with the care and nourishment 



40 HISTORY LAFAYETTE ALVMNI 

usually bestowed on such offspring. It is estimated that one- 
third of our early life was spent in bed, one-third in devilment 
of assorted sizes, and one-third in pursuit of an education. 



CHAPTER III. 

ADVENTURES AND PERADVENTURES. 

In all the varied circumstances of our birth and breeding, 
tw^o gifts only were common to us all ; namely, original sin, 
and more or less education at Lafayette. These common 
privileges form the basis and bond of our sympathy, and give 
occasion for this '' feed" which we are met to execute. 

Peradventure some of us have achieved or endured some- 
thing which will shed lustre on us all, but if any fellow has 
behaved himself that way, he has concealed the fact from me, 
and thereby wrapped up his light in a napkin. 

So far as I can learn, however, no one has done anything 
to justify your historian in making personal allusions to him, 
or filing him down to point a moral or adorn a tale. 

We are I trust above the petty ambition of seeking the 
highest seats in the page of histor\^ or the chief room in a 
poem. Are we not brethren? Side by side we past more 
difficult examinations than we could have past alone — some of 
us ; with one voice we piped the dulcet hour ; with a long pull 
a strong pull and a pull altogether we laid low the mighty 
stairway. We have stood together, sat together, and our 
enemies assert that on occasion we lied together. Why should 
we now seek to make our gray, bald heads conspicuous above 



HISTORY LAFAYETTE ALUMNI 41 

our brethren, and thereby make the task of our historian a 
burden grievous to be borne? Let those who love her court 
the muse of notoriety ; for us it is enough to-night to feel that 
our alumni are standing firm and true to what is manly and 
good ; rejoicing in each other's welfare ; proud that where a 
son of Lafayette stands guard no trust will be betrayed, no 
promise broken and no false ambition cherished. Thus shall 
we best preserve the age of chivalry and leave it to be said of 
us as of the knights of good Sir Philip Sydney's type and time : 

" Their bodies be dust 
Their good swords rust 
Their souls are with their God 
We trust." 



Annual Meeting and Banquet of 1887. 



The Annual Meeting and Banquet last year was held in 
the Aldine Hotel, Chestnut Street, west of Nineteenth, Phila- 
delphia, on Thursday evening, March 17th. There was a large 
attendance, and all agreed that the meeting was a success. 

At the business meeting the Constitution, which had been 
prepared by the temporary Executive Committee, was sub- 
.mitted and unanimously adopted. This Constitution is found 
on page 44. 

The permanent organization of the Association was 
effected by the election of the following officers: President, 
George R. Kaercher, Esq., '66 ; Vice-President, Edgar M. Green, 
M.D., '84 ; Secretary, Charles B. Adamson, '77 ; Treasurer, Mc- 
Clune}^ Radcliffe, M.D., '77 ; Executive Committee, Rev. Irwin 
P. McCurdy, D.D., '80, Chairman; Rev. Prof. Samuel A. Martin, 
'77, James Monaghan, Esq., '76, Wm. F. Brown, '80, and Cyrus 
E. Woods, Esq., '86. 

At the Banquet the post-prandial programme was opened 
with an excellent Poem by Rev. John Milton Scott, '80. An 
orator and historian had been appointed for the occasion, but 
they were unable to be present. Good addresses were made by 
President James H. Mason Knox, D.D., LL.D., Ex-President 
WilHam C. Cattell, D.D., LL.D., Hon. John Trunkey, LL.D. 



BANQUET OF 1887 43 

(Lafayette), Horatio C. Wood, M.D., LL.D. (Lafayette), George 
Junkin, Esq., '42, Hon. Eobert Snodgrass, '57, President A. H. 
Fetterolf, Ph.D. (Lafayette), Pev. James C. Mackenzie, Ph.D., 
'78, and the Presiding Officer, George R. Kaercher, Esq., '66. 
We regret that we are unable to pubhsh in this first num- 
ber of The Annual Mr. Scott's Poem, which was well adapted 
to the occasion. The following closing paragraph is a specimen 
of its strength and beauty : 

For our sacred dead a tear 

And a smile of golden hope ; 
Above our darkest fear. 

The hills of glory slope ; 
From the dark soil here away, 

They have clomb to blossom fine, 
They have gone from night to day, 

They have gone from storm to shine ; 
And we'll find them by-and-by, 

In the up23er sunny sky ; 
Above our darkest fear. 

The hills of glory slope ; 
For our sacred dead a tear 

And a smile of golden hope. 



.CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



Philadelphia Alumni Association 



OF 



LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



ARTICLE I. 

NAME AND OBJECT. 

Section 1. — This organization shall be known as the Phila- 
delphia Alumni Association of Lafayette College. 

Section 2. — The object of this Association shall be to main- 
tain union and sympathy among its members, to secure 
acquaintance with the record of each of the men of Lafayette, 
and to promote the prosperity of our Alma Mater. 

ARTICLE 11. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Section 1. — Any alumnus, or former student, of the College, 
and other persons having received honorary degrees from the 



CONSTITUTION 45 

College, shall become members upon the payment of the 
annual dues. 

Section 2. — The annual dues of members shall be three 
dollars. 

ARTICLE III. 

OFFICERS. 

Section 1. — The officers of this Association shall be a Presi- 
dent, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer ; and they shall 
perform the duties usually connected with such offices. The 
officers shall be members ex-officio of the Executive Com- 
mittee. 

Section 2. — The Executive Committee shall consist of five 
members, and shall be elected, together with the officers, at the 
annual meeting. * 



'to- 



ARTICLE IV. 

MEETINGS. 

Section 1. — The Annual Meeting shall be held on the first 
Thursday evening of March, at such place as shall be deter- 
mined by the Executive Committee. 

Section 2. — Special meetings may be held at the call of 
the Executive Committee. 

ARTICLE V. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Section 1. — At each annual meeting an Orator, Historian, 
and Poet shall be elected for the next annual meeting. 



46 CONSTITUTION 

Section 2. — An Annual, containing the minutes of the 
Association, abstracts of the addresses delivered at the annual 
meeting, a directory of the members, and other matters per- 
taining to the xlssociation and College, may be published by 
the Executive Committee immediately after the Annual 
Meeting. 

ARTICLE VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Section 1. — This Constitution may be amended, at an 
annual meeting, by the consent of two-thirds of the members 
present. 



OFFICERS. 



PRESIDENT. 
George R. Kaercher, Esq., '66, . . . 227 Walnut St., Phila. 



VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Edgar M. Green, M.D., '84 Easton, Pa. 



SECRETARY. 
Charles B. Adamson, '77. .... 730 Market St., Phila. 



TREASURER. 
McCluney Radcliffe, M.D., '77, . . 711 North 16th St., Phila. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Rev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D.D., '80, Chairman, 723 South 20th St., Phila. 
Prof. Jannes C. Mackenzie, Ph.D., '78, . . Lawrenceville, N. J. 
Prof. Sannuel A. Martin, '77, .... Lincoln University, Pa. 
James Monaghan, Esq., '7S, .... West Chester, Pa. 

Cyrus E. Woods, Esq., '86, 708 Walnut St., Phila. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS, 



Acton, L 0., Esq., Salem, N. J. 

Adamson, Charles B., 730 Market St., Phila. 

Aiken, Rev. T. J., Berwyn, Pa. 

Alexander, Rev. W. C, Middletown, Del. 

Allis, 0. H., M.D., 1604 Spruce St., Phila. 

Banks, Benj. S., 142 S. 4th St., Phila. 

Barber, Edwin A., West Chester, Pa. 

Barclay, R. D. C, Esq., P. R. R. Co., Phila. 

Bausman, J. W. B., Esq., Lancaster, Pa. 

Beggs, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Falls of Schuylkill, Phila. 

Best, Dr. G. N., Rosemont, N. J. 

Bloom, E. S., 1738 Lambert St., Phila. 

Bolton, Charles W., 1510 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Bolton, Rev. J. G., 1906 Pine St., Phila. 

Boyd, James P., Esq., 720 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Brodhead, Hon. Charles, Bethlehem, Pa. 

Brown, W. F., 42 S. Del. Ave., Phila. 

Brown, Rev. Wm. Y., D.D., 204 S. 42d St., Phila. 

Buck waiter, H. B., West Chester, Pa. 

Burns, Rev. Charles E., Manayunk, Phila. 

Bush, George W., Jr., Wilmington, Del. 

Cattell, Henry W., M.D., 222 S. 39th St., Phila. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS 49 

Cattell, Prof. James McKeen, Ph.D, 222 S. 39th St, Phila. 

Chain, B. Percy, Esq, Norristown, Pa. 

Clark, Prof. J. A., Chestnut Level, Pa. 

Clark, Rev. John P., Stillwater, N. J. 

Clark, Hon. Silas M., LL. D., Girard House, Phila. 

Cleveland, A. H, 2102 Mt. Vernon St., Phila. 

Crowell, T. R., Lebanon, Pa. 

Curtin, Rowland G., M.D., 22 S. 18th St., Phila. 

Dannehower, Wm. F., Esq, Norristown, Pa. 

Datesman, George E., City Survey Dept., Phila. 

Deringer, Col. C. M., 1530 Spruce St., Phila. 

Derr, Andrew F., Wilkes-Bar re. Pa. 

Doran, James T., Berwyn, Pa. 

Dorris, Col. William, Huntingdon, Pa. 

Drake, Fred. Raymond, Easton, Pa. 

Driver, Alfred, Esq., 400 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Dubois, H. M., Esq., 227 S. 6th St., Phila. 

Eby, Maurice C, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Eckard, Rev. L. W., Abington, Pa. 

Eckles, Rev. M. J., Salisbury, Md. 

Emmons, Harry, Esq., Wilmington, Del. 

Evans, Montgomery, Esq., Norristown, Pa. 

Farber, Edwin J., Baltimore, Md. 

Fetterolf, A. H., Ph.D., Pres. Girard College, Phila. 

Fleming, Hon. S. W., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Flinn, Irvine M., M.D., Newport, Del. 

Flinn, Lewis W., M.D., Wilmington, Del. 

Forney, Charles, Lebanon, Pa. 

Fox, John E., Esq., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Freeman, J. S., Esq., 1805 Bouvier Avenue, Phila. 



50 ROLL OF MEMBERS 

Fuller, J. B., Bowie, Md. 

Gayley, Rev. Samuel A., D.D, Colora, Md. 

Gayley, T. G., Esq., 417 8. 18th St., Phila. 

Gibson, M. M., Esq., Norristown, Pa. 

Gilland, Rev. J. W., Shamokin, Pa. 

Glover, Hon. Horace P., Mifflinburg, Pa. 

Goldberg, Dr. B. M., 1208 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Good, Rev. James I., D.D., 1515 N. 19th St., Phila. 

Green, Edgar M., M.D., Easton, Pa. 

Green, John Traill, M.D., Easton, Pa. 

Hamill, Robert H., M.D., 1812 Christian St., Phila. 

Hart, Israel, M.D., Pennington, N. J. 

Hart, I. Smith, 409 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Head, R. Walter, Barneston, Pa. 

Heberton, Rev. W. W., 1334 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Heebner, Charles, Esq. 131 S. 4th St., Phila. 

Hench, Prof. J. B., Blairstown, N. J. 

Hepburn, R. H., Avondale, Pa. 

Herbert, E. S., Esq., 706 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Herr, Daniel C, Esq., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Hess, Robert J., M.D., 610 Fairmount Avenue, Phila. 

Hinkson, John B., Esq., Chester, Pa. 

Hogg, J. Renwick, 2d and Huntingdon Sts., Phila. 

Hulick, Hon. Wm. H., Easton, Pa. 

Johnson, Dr. H. T., Pedericktown, N. J. 

Johnson, Dr. May hew, Penn's Grove, N. J. 

Jones, George M., Harrington, Del. 

Kaercher, George R., Esq., 227 S. 4th St., Phila. 

Kaercher, S. H., Esq., Pottsville, Pa. 

Keely, Oliver S., Manayunk, Phila. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS 51 

Keller, J. Frank, Lancaster, Pa. 

Kershaw, Prof. Wm., Ph.D., Germantown, Phila. 

Kirkpatrick, Hon. W. S., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Larzalere, N. H., Esq., Norristown, Pa. 

Leaman, Dr. B., Learn an Place, Pa. 

Lear, John, M.D., Allentown, Pa. 

Lichtenwallner, E. P., Esq., Macungie, Pa. 

Lichty, C. V., Lancaster, Pa. 

Long, Rev. A. W., Flourtown, Pa. 

Long, Rev. E. W., Glen Riddle, Pa. 

Long, James W., Easton, Pa. 

Long, Simon C., Lancaster, Pa. 

Mackenzie, Rev. James C, Ph.D., Lawrenceville, N. J. 

McCamant, Hon. Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa. 

McCurdy, Rev. Irwin P., D.D., 723 S. 20th St., Phila. 

McDowell, R. M., Slatington, Pa. 

McGalHard, B. W., M.D., University of Penna., Phila. 

McGill, John, 2036 Spring Garden St., Phila. 

McGowan, Rev. J. A., Gloucester, N. J. 

McKenzie, Wm., M.D., Conshohocken, Pa. 

McKinney, Rev. W. W., D.D., Baltimore, Md. 

Mann, C. H., M.D., Bridgeport, Pa. 

Marcy, J. W., M.D., Merchantville, N. J. 

Markle, John, Jeddo, Pa. 

Martin, Prof. S. A., Lincoln University, Pa. 

Meily, James, 208 S. 4th St., Phila. 

Monaghan, James, West Chester, Pa. 

Moore, Rev. Frank H., 252 W. Logan Square, Phila. 

Myers, Wm. B., Bethlehem, Pa. 

North, Rev. G. W., Holmesburg, Phila. 



52 ROLL OF MEMBERS 

Pardee, I. P., Stanhope, N. J. 

Patterson, Rev. Pv. M., D.D., LL.D., 1512 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Perkins, J. D., Coatesville, Pa. 

Pershing, Dr. Howel T., Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Polk, Samuel, Princeton, N. J. 

Pollock, Rev. J. F., Allentown, Pa. 

Queen, Rev. S. R., Bridgeport, Pa. 

Radcliffe, McCluney, M.D., 711 N. IGth St. Phila. 

Raub, John A., M.D., 1400 N. 15th St., Philadelphia. 

Reading, John G., Jr., Esq., Williamsport, Pa. 

Reed, Joseph P., 303 Walnut St., Phila. 

Reeves, J. Howard, M.D., 2031 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Reid, Alfred P., Esq., West Chester, Pa. 

Reid, S. S., 4023 Market St., Phila. 

Rex, 0. P., M.D., 1611 Race St., Phila. 

Richards, 0. M., University of Penna., Phila. 

Richey, Hon. A, G., Trenton, N. J. 

Reigner, W. B., St. Elmo Hotel, Phila. 

Riley, Samuel M., Ashland, Pa. 

Roberts, Rev. James, D.D., Darby, Pa. 

Rogers, D. Ogden, Esq., Norristown, Pa. 

Rohrbach, Prof. J. H., Kutztown, Pa. 

Roney, W. S., Esq., 227 S. 6th St., Phila. 

Ross, George R., Lebanon, Pa. 

Ross, Will. R., Lebanon, Pa. 

Rowland, Samuel C, Port Deposit, Md. 

Schultz, Prof. E. A., Easton, Pa. 

Scollay, John, Esq,, 138 S. 3d St., Phila. 

Scott, Prof. Charles P. G., Ph.D., 76 5th Avenue, N. Y. City. 

Scott, George E., 144 S. 4th St., Phila. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS 53 

Scott, Rev. J. M., Port Norris, N. J. 

Seltzer, M. P., Roanoke, Va. 

Serfass, Joshua R., Esq, Easton, Pa. 

Serfass, J. J., M.D., Easton, Pa. 

Sheafer, W. L., Pottsville, Pa. 

Silver, A. P., Glenville, Md. 

Silver, Benjamin, Jr., Glenville, Md. 

Smith, Prof. E. C, 1514 Locust St., Phila. 

Smith, H. A., M.D., 1319 N. 15th St., Phila. 

Smith, Harry A., Newtown, Pa. 

Smith, Robert G., Esq., 1136 Girard St., Phila. 

Smithers, Hon. N. B., LL.D., Dover, Del. 

Snodgrass, Hon. Robert, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Snowden, Robert P., Esq., Camden., N. J. 

Snyder, JefF., Esq., Reading, Pa. 

Sprecher, Samuel, Lebanon, Pa. 

Springer, Willard, M.D., Wilmington, Del. 

Stewart, Edward F., Easton, Pa. 

Stewart, K. J., Princeton, N. J. 

Stidham, J. P., M.D., 4001 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Streeper, Levi, Lafayette Hill, Pa. 

Strouse, Myer, Pottsville, Pa. 

Styer, Freas, Esq., Norristown, Pa. 

Supplee, Israel H., Rosemont, Pa. 

Swartz, Hon. A. S., Norristown, Pa. 

Tate, Hon. H. D., Bedford, Pa. 

Thompson, Rev. J. C, 1516 S. Broad St., Phila. 

Thompson, Rev. Thomas, Lancaster, Pa. 

Tudor, Joseph H., Cumberland, Md. 

Tull, M. Graham, M.D., 4807 Woodland Avenue, Phila. 



54 ROLL OF MEMBERS 

Turner, Frank N., Port Carbon, Pa. 

Updegrove, J. D., University of Penna., Phila. 

VanHorn, Joseph A., Yardleyville, Pa. 

Walk, Hon. James W., M.D., 748 N. 20th St., Phila. 

Walters, Lieut.-Col. L. R., Phoenixville, Pa. 

Watts, H. Maitland, 7th and Chestnut Sts., Phila. 

Webber, H. W., Wilmington, Del. 

Wells, Frank H., 20 S. Delaware Avenue, Phila. 

Wells, George M., M.D., Blockley Hospital, Phila. 

Welsh, Prof. J. P., West Chester, Pa. 

Wickersham, Hon. J. P., LL.D., Lancaster, Pa. 

Wilbur, W. N., 235 N. 3d St., Phila. 

Wilson, James, Greenville, Del. 

Wood, Prof. H. C, M.D., LL.D., 1925 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Wood, J. Whit., Easton, Pa. 

Woods, C. E., Esq., 708 AValnut St., Phila. 

Woods, Rev. M. C, Parkesburg, Pa. 

Woods, A¥. v., M.D., Odessa, Del. 

Woodside, George D., 1916 Market St., Phila. 

Worden, Rev. James A., D.D., 1334 Chestnut St., Phila. 

Wright, Robert J., LL.D., Bustleton, Phila. 

Yeomans, George, M.D., 1948 N. Broad St., Phila. 

Ziegler, W. M. L., M.D., 1418 N. 17th St., Phila. 



THE ANNUAL 



BY 



El Doeado. 



This year of Eighteen-eighty-eight, 
We cheerfully inaugurate 
The Annual, with Volume One — 
Long live the work that's now begun ! 

May this Alumni magazine 

Have strength and beauty — reign a Queen 

In the Alumni College world — 

And keep the folds of truth unfurled. 

And may this winged messenger 
Of news from our Alumni stir 
Us all to do our very best 
In Alma Mater's interest. 

We now send forth The Annual ! 
Sincerely trusting that she shall 
Be welcome at our Friendship's shrine, 
Reminding us of " auld lang syne." 



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